Projector.



'N 792.72% PATENTED JUNE 20, 1905. R. B. PATTERSON.

PROJECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.21,1904.

No. 792,727. I

UNTTED STATES Patented June 20, 1905.

RICHARD B. PATTERSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PROJECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,727, dated June 20, 1905.

Application filed March 21, 1904;. Serial No. 199,141.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, RICHARD .B. PATTERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Projectors, of which the following is a specification.

The projector of the present invention is designed for the throwing or projecting of a disk or flat object, and is more especially intended for the use of children, but can be used by others.

The object of the invention is to construct a projector having a handle to be grasped by the user and a pivoted arm carried by the handle and having in its free end a slit or slot for receiving and holding a flat-faced disk or other similar object.

Theinvention consists in the features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is an elevation showing the arm standing erect and in position to be thrown down and discharge or project the disk; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation of the handle with the arm in full elevation and in the position it occupies when the disk has been projected or thrown; Fig. 3, a detail in section of the end of the handle in which the arm operates; and Fig. 4, a detail, being an elevation of the end of the discharging-arm, showing the slit or slot.

The handle A is made of wood or other suitable material and of a length to furnish at one end the necessary grasp for the hand of the user, and preferably the handle is made round in cross-section, but could be of other shape in cross-section. The opposite end of the handle A to that grasped by the hand has therein a recess or channel a, formed on an incline from the extreme end of the handle inward to the point of termination, so as to furnish an inclined bottom or face a, against which the discharging-arm will strike and furnish the necessary recoil or resistance to discharge or project the disk. The dischargingarm B is also made of wood or other suitable material and of a length so that it will have the necessary contact to discharge or throw the disk carried thereby when the arm engages the inclined bottom or face 0/ of the handle. This arm B at its inner end is mounted in the handle at the inner terminus of the slot or recess a and is held in place by a suitable pin or pivot b passing crosswise through the walls of the slot or recess (6 and the end of the arm, and, as shown, the body of the handle at the inner terminus of the slot or recess a has an opening Z) for the end of the discharging-arm when upturned, as shown in Fig. 1. The outer or free end of the discharging-arm has therein a slot 0, into which is entered and loosely held a disk or other fiatfaced object O, the retention being such as to allow the disk to be projected or thrown away when the arm is forcibly thrown down into engagement with the inclined bottom or face a of the handle.

In use the discharging-arm B has the disk 0 entered into the slit or slot 0, and the arm is raised into a vertical or right-angle relation to the handle. The user by a sudden and quick downthrow of the handle causes the discharging-arm B to rapidly descend, and such descent is suddenly stopped by the engagement of the discharging-arm with the inclined bottom or face a, and such sudden stoppage of the arm throws the disk out of the slit or slot and causes the disk to be projected or thrown.

The device is simple in construction and will furnish amusement for the users, especially children, and will enable a disk or other flat object to be thrown a greater or less distance, according to the power exerted and the quick stoppage of the arm in its descent. It is preferred to use a round disk, as shown; but it will be understood that other thin flatfaced objects which can be held in the end of 9 tain the discharging arm in a raised position to be thrown down forcibly onto the handle and discharge or throw the disk.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

I 1. A manually-operated projector consisting of a handle having in its body a recess terminating at its outer edge in a beveled or inclined contact-face, an arm having its inner end entered into the recess and having its free end formed to hold a missile prior to its discharge, and means 'for pivoting the arm within the recess to limit the backward movement of the arm by contact with the lower face of the recess and limit its forward swing by abutment against the beveled contact-face, substantially as described.

2. A manually-operated projector consisting of a handle having in its body a perforation and having one of its sides inwardly beveled to the perforation to form a contact-face, an arm entered into the recess and slotted at its free end for the retention of a missile prior to its discharge, and a pin passing transversely through the perforated portion of the handle and the arm for pivoting the arm and allowing its pivoted end to project through the perforation when the arm is drawn back and positioned to have such backward movement limitcd by contact with the lower face of the per- 39 forated portion, substantially as described.

' RICHARD B. PATTERSON. 

